Abstract

Current and former U.S. intelligence officers in unprecedentedly large numbers politicized intelligence in their opposition to candidate and then President Donald Trump. The activists consistently refused, and still refuse, to accept responsibility for the politicization or the damage it caused to intelligence and broader national security. They declined to consider whether a well-established field of thought—civil–military relations—contains insights about normatively appropriate behavior by former senior intelligence officers, especially. This article explores lessons for intelligence officers in the civil–military literature and offers suggestions for revised behavioral norms by intelligence officers in the conduct of “civil–intelligence relations.”

摘要

前所未有的大量现任和前任美国情报官员将情报政治化，反对候选人和当时的总统唐纳德特朗普。活动人士一直拒绝并且仍然拒绝为政治化或其对情报和更广泛的国家安全造成的损害承担责任。他们拒绝考虑一个成熟的思想领域——军民关系——是否包含对前高级情报官员的规范适当行为的见解，尤其是。本文探讨了军民文献中情报官员的经验教训，并为情报官员在“民事-情报关系”行为中修正行为规范提供了建议。